Top Space Stories 2018
Here are some of the most amazing discoveries and space happenings of 2018.
Oumuamua, Repeating Fast Radio Bursts, Neutrinos, Tabby's Star, Kepler and Dawn, TESS,...
4,400-year-old tomb discovered at Saqqara, Egypt
By A. R. Williams
During Egypt’s pyramid age, a well-connected man named Wahtye died and was laid to rest in the vast royal cemetery that...
Voyager 2 probe moves into interstellar space
Eleven billion miles from Earth, NASA's long-lived Voyager 2 probe,
still beaming back data 41 years after its launch in 1977, has...
Could this Asteroid be an Extraterrestrial Solar Sail?
by Matt Williams
On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar...
Freddie Mercury’s Zoroastrianism
by Vasudha Narayanan
In the Freddie Mercury biopic, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” there’s a scene in which a family member scolds Mercury.
“So now the family name...
America’s archaeology data keeps disappearing
Archaeology – the name conjures up images of someone carefully sifting the sands for traces of the past and then meticulously putting those relics...
Possible Site of Atlantis Found Using Satellite Imagery
Thanks to Plato’s account of the lost city and Google Earth, new visual and arithmetic clues suggest that the mythical city of Atlantis may...
Earliest known drawing found on rock in South African cave
It lacks the grace of Leonardo and has none of the warmth of Rubens, but the criss-crossed pattern on the chunk of rock is...
Pluto Should Be a Planet After All
This New Paper Says Pluto Should Be a Planet After All, And Here's Why
BY FIONA MACDONALD
It's been 12 years since everyone's favourite dwarf planet...
Massive Pyramid, Lost City and Ancient Human Sacrifices Unearthed in China
By Owen Jarus
A 4,300-year-old city, which has a massive step pyramid that is at least 230 feet (70 meters) high and spans 59 acres...